Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Jannis wrote:

Have you installed catalyst from Vi0l0's repo? Stable or beta? Latest beta supports xorg-server 1.15.1-1 so I'd recommend using that. I don't know about the open driver's performance but it's getting much better recently. If I remember, some people posted statements regarding it's performance with the HD 6xxx series a few pages ago.

Also, which packages did you install? For Dota you'll need the multilib repo (search the wiki on that) if you're on 64bit arch and install the 32bit packages of catalyst in addition to the 64bit ones: lib32-catalyst-libgl lib32-catalyst-utils lib32-opencl-catalystYou probably don't need opencl but I'm not sure and having it installed doesn't hurt.

Yes, I installed the latest from Vi0lo's repo like 2 days ago, and I assume they are beta. I did install all the necessary packages as far as I know, I'll try updating my drivers again. I installed and played Leauge of Legends on PoL today and it worked ok, but it has a 20-30% performance decrease when compared to windows.

Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Vi0L0 wrote:

ChemBro wrote:

But Metro: Last Light still freezes my pc. :-/

Just curious: immidiatelly while starting or after some time? Maybe I was not playing enought(?).

There is an intro video, after that, the real rendering begins (the "press any key screen"). And there after some random seconds (!), it freezes. I thought, it was the fog effect, because I had problems with it with older versions, but yesterday, I could clearly see the fog effect without any stuttering, though my PC froze after some seconds (second time after I clicked + 2 seconds).

Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Hi thanks for the last update (14.4 version). The only thing was my surprise when I discovered: no slide bar for overscan TV anymore (HDMI output in my case) ... I don't have overscan option in TV menu, so, the simplest way was with the simple slide bar... I searched in the changelog but nothing. Somebody knows if is "normal" ? The other screen is in DVI output and all is ok.

Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

desaparecido wrote:

Hi thanks for the last update (14.4 version). The only thing was my surprise when I discovered: no slide bar for overscan TV anymore (HDMI output in my case) ... I don't have overscan option in TV menu, so, the simplest way was with the simple slide bar... I searched in the changelog but nothing. Somebody knows if is "normal" ? The other screen is in DVI output and all is ok.

whoops - and the over/underscan you had set was still there? because if not that'd be a deal-breaker for me. Guess I'll comment out the catalyst repo until I know more

Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

I can't update my system due to some incompatibilities between mesa-libgl and catalyst-total-hd234k. I'm using kdm.

Should I wait for an update from Vi0L0?

Now this is strange, there should be no such situation. Maybe there's some package which depends on particulary mesa-libgl?Check out the output of:

pacman -Syup
pacman -Qu
pacman -Qi mesa-libgl

Maybe it will tell something.

desaparecido wrote:

Hi thanks for the last update (14.4 version). The only thing was my surprise when I discovered: no slide bar for overscan TV anymore (HDMI output in my case) ... I don't have overscan option in TV menu, so, the simplest way was with the simple slide bar... I searched in the changelog but nothing. Somebody knows if is "normal" ? The other screen is in DVI output and all is ok.

Just a thought - did you check ?:systemctl stop temp-links-catalyst # if did startsystemctl disable temp-links-catalyst # if was enabledstop Xrm -r /etc/atireinstall catalyststartx

Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

gotjazz wrote:

desaparecido wrote:

Hi thanks for the last update (14.4 version). The only thing was my surprise when I discovered: no slide bar for overscan TV anymore (HDMI output in my case) ... I don't have overscan option in TV menu, so, the simplest way was with the simple slide bar... I searched in the changelog but nothing. Somebody knows if is "normal" ? The other screen is in DVI output and all is ok.

whoops - and the over/underscan you had set was still there? because if not that'd be a deal-breaker for me. Guess I'll comment out the catalyst repo until I know more

Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

catalyst 14.4 stable is out.Later today i will test it. If 14.4 will be stable enought it will land in [catalyst-stable] (and [catalyst]), the archive 13.12 repo will be called [catalyst-stable-13.12].With this update I want to add experimental pxp functionality into catalyst-libgl package (while keeping still-not-splitted catalyst-utils-pxp package for now).

Edit:

ChemBro wrote:

Vi0L0 wrote:

ChemBro wrote:

But Metro: Last Light still freezes my pc. :-/

Just curious: immidiatelly while starting or after some time? Maybe I was not playing enought(?).

There is an intro video, after that, the real rendering begins (the "press any key screen"). And there after some random seconds (!), it freezes. I thought, it was the fog effect, because I had problems with it with older versions, but yesterday, I could clearly see the fog effect without any stuttering, though my PC froze after some seconds (second time after I clicked + 2 seconds).

I have experienced similiar problems while testing metro ll more closely on 14.4 stable - but i'm able to run the game, play some time and then it quits to the desktop, 100% reproducable. Then I downgraded catalyst to 14.4 RC to check, and it turned out there's the same problem.Other games are running fine.But there's one other annoying bug, steps to reproduce:1. run steam2. turn kde desktop effects off (via ctrl + shift + f12)3. run some game and quit it4. turn kde desktop effects on (via ctrl + shift + f12)effect: task bar is dead, doesn't answer.Reproducable also on 14.4 RC.Edit: wait, wait, looks like it's happening only when chromium-dev with aura is enabled, so it's not that annoying...

Amd flagged this release as stable, but it doesn't feel that way. For my 290x it's still the best catalyst available (because of fixed 2d accelerattion), but should i put it into catalyst-stable repo?Even if I will put it there users would still be able to use [catalyst-stable-13.12] repo (which I will keep in update) but well... i'm not sure. Guys what do you think?Edit: or maybe lets do this in different way, I will update [catalyst] repo and catalyst-test(-pxp) @ AUR, you will test it and tell what do you think, sounds pretty fair ;-)

Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Yes, just wait for the update, it will be versioned as 14.4-10.

Edit: new catalyst-test release will conflict and provide mesa-libgl and mesa-libgl-git - yes providing both could be messy if mesa-libgl-git would work on other libs versions than mesa-libgl, but I didn't notice version change for months, so lets check how it will work.It also doesn't conflict with any oss driver (either intel or ati), so with it you should be able to perform a switch from one to another driver without installing/removing packages, simply run pxp_switch_catalyst to link libs and xorg.conf. Tested on 290x and 3.14 kernel with catalyst and oss ati, with [mesa-git], it worked - without 3d acceleration because afaik it's not available for 290x on 3.14 kernel, but kms and 2d accel were working just fine (could be that dpm also since fan was working quietelly).

Now i will implement it into catalyst-libgl and soon will update catalyst repo.